Donald Trump said his updated version of the North American Free Trade Agreement would have to get a new name, the old one having been fatally tarnished by a “bad connotation.”

And now the internet has responded, though perhaps not in the spirit the U.S. president intended.

From the mostly snide suggestions offered up by followers of a Washington-based professor of Canadian studies, to a radio-station poll and various independent offerings, the online masses have given Trump a variety of choices for replacing the NAFTA name, or at least its acronym.

The Twitter-posted proposal of Richard Miles, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, typifies the general tone. CBIATA, he suggests — Can’t Believe It’s a Trade Agreement.

Trump may have been serious in wanting to signal a new era in North American trade by banishing the NAFTA name. The monikers floated online indicate a more mocking take on his renaming plan.

Chris Sands, head of the Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins University, issued the Twitter challenge to which Miles and Paquin responded and actually hoped to get some suggestions the trade partners could adopt.

But he also recognizes it was a chance to vent about a process that has put many people “on edge.”

“I think we’re all feeling exhausted … by the high pressure of this, by the negativity in a lot of ways,” Sands said. “Trump has engineered this kind (of) psychological pressure on everybody by saying, ‘Well, I could withdraw from NAFTA or I could leave Canada out.’ It’s had an effect.”

Trump, meanwhile, may already have come up with his replacement acronym. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that he told a private meeting of supporters he wants to call it USMC – for United States Mexico Canada, though the initials are currently better known as the short-form of United States Marine Corps.

Mike Fejes, a Canadian military officer and Carleton University doctoral student, responded to Sands’ call with LAFTA … Laurentian Free Trade Agreement. “I meant Laurentia as the large continental mass that forms the ancient geological core of North America — kind of a turn the clock back concept that Trump would love,” he explained in another Tweet.

U.S. President Donald Trump (maybe) mulls over some suggested new names for NAFTA at the White House.Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

Trade lawyer Dan Ujczo, a close follower of the NAFTA renegotiation, proposed the upbeat WINA — Workers Initiative for North America — or NEWA — New Economic and Workers Agreement.

The iHeart Radio network conducted an online poll between three new names it suggested. The winner referenced the fact the U.S. has already struck a new trade deal with Mexico, and played off a favourite Trump slogan: Make America Gringo Again (MAGA).

On a similar note was the Twitter-posted suggestion MAGA+2.

Democratic activist Carol York made clear on Twitter her view of Trump’s treatment of U.S. trading partners and Americans, suggesting his new trade-deal name should be called SHAFTA.